Rounding out our week of posting about legalities and liability – let’s talk about two more interesting topics: mediation and arbitration. Let’s face it, from time to time, a buyer and seller will have a serious disagreement. Not too many years ago, the only way to settle a dispute was a lawsuit
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07/02/2008
All the chaos and uncertainty in today’s world provoked an interesting question from one of my home buying clients. The question went something like this: After all the buyer’s contingencies have been removed, can a home buyer cancel the contract to purchase as a consequence of the catastrophic
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07/02/2008
Sellers should never agree to pay for termite repairs and provide a termite “clearance” without placing a maximum dollar limit on the cost of those repairs. Here’s why… Most termite inspection reports state that if any further damage or infestation is found during the course of the repair work,
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07/02/2008
San Mateo County home buyers can use Google Maps to save time and money by strategically planning out their driving routes while previewing homes. You can get directions to multiple addresses, plot the addresses on a map for a visual and view live traffic information to name a few. Although Goog
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07/02/2008
What exactly is the walk through? Usually, the San Mateo County home buyer purchases the property in the same condition as when the offer was placed. The walk through allows the buyer to "walk through" the property to ensure the house is in the same condition as when they made the offer. For mor
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07/02/2008
The media is full of reports about the decline and fall of the housing market and the mortgage meltdown, but they aren’t necessarily telling the local story. Let’s look at the real estate market from a different vantage point. Here are some interesting statistics: Homes are still selling and abo
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05/09/2008
I’ve been talking a lot lately to buyers on this blog. The fact is that it’s a good time to be a buyer and not such a great time to be a seller. That said, you can still sell your home at a good price, in a reasonable time frame if you put in a little effort. Here are some tips for overcoming th
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05/07/2008
In the boom periods of the housing market, and especially areas of San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties like Menlo Park, Burlingame, Palo Alto and Cupertino, the demand for homes was extraordinary high while the supply of homes for sale was critically limited. Simultaneous multiple offers and aggr
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05/06/2008
More than one in five home buyers in San Mateo County are women. Here are some tips for security conscious women home buyers. The most secure and safe homes or condominiums have the following features: Attached garages and electronic door openers Secure entrances such as gated communities or sec
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05/02/2008
Talk about controversy… the Bay Meadows Development Project has more people expressing their opinions and staking out positions than there are passing through the Carlmont Starbucks each week. So why not mine too? Well I’ve seen many well-intentioned men and women take up positions on the topic f
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04/30/2008
